State of Data & AI 2026: Agentic AI

Enterprise agentic AI adoption is accelerating across Australia, but governance is emerging as the primary constraint—organisations deploying task-specific agents face risks from agent sprawl, accountability gaps, and lack of visibility as adoption scales from dozens to thousands of agents per enterprise by 2028. If you're building governance, monitoring, or orchestration tooling for AI agents, you're now selling into a compulsory problem—74% of IT leaders see agents as a new attack vector, and only 13% have governance structures in place as deployment scales from dozens to thousands per organisation. CIOs have no visibility into agents deployed across functions; that opacity is your market.